The first track on the second shellac album is, to my mind, very techno - heavy on the repetition so that when the (very slight) change comes its all the more powerful.
I think im right in saying that shellac build a lot of their own equipment (amps etc) in order to get a very unique sound (albinis metal guitar picks, his collection of vintage mics and having two producers in the band probably helps as well). I read recently that albinis extensive 'engineering' credits (I believe he does not like to be credited as a producer) are due to the fact the he still to this day charges a bare minimum to record bands. :-----Original Message----- :From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:25 PM :To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 313@hyperreal.org :Cc: Robert Taylor :Subject: RE: (313) top ten rediscoveries for 2002. : :Big Black were definitely one of the catalysts that brought me from :rock/punk to electronic music. :It sort of went from Sonic Youth/Buttholes - Big Black/Arsenal/Rapeman - :Ministry/RevCo/WaxTrax stuff - NewBeat/Front 242/DAF/Nitzer Ebb - :R&S/Network/Warp - and from Network to Detroit via the Retro Techno/Reese :stuff. Cybotron/Model 500 I came across a lot earlier through StreetSounds :comps but I didn't know it was called techno and didn't know about Detroit :by then. I think many Europeans got to techno through this route. : :-----Original Message----- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:14 PM :To: 313@hyperreal.org :Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: RE: (313) top ten rediscoveries for 2002. : : :Big Black was from Chicago / Evanston, Illinois, and consisted of Steve :Albini, :Dave Riley, Santiago Durango, and Roland [drums]. Steve and a few others :from :Scratch Acid formed Rapeman, another favorite of mine, also on Touch & Go. :Then :he started producing other people... Breeders being one of the biggest :acts. : :He still does his band, Shellac, now. : :Pretty sure they were one of the first pseudo-"punk" bands to be touring :with :just a drum machine. Dave was a member of Mojo's "Midnight Funk :Association"; :I never knew what the hell that was until years and years later, having :bought :Atomizer first, on cassette, in 1987 at age 14. : :Perhaps I subconsciously drew interest from the card into Electrifyin' Mojo :> :Detroit? My interest, aside from Motown, only developed as the 808 State + :Biorhythms comps started floating across the water. doh! : : :+odd :-- :At 9:14 AM +0000 07.01.2003, Robert Taylor wrote: :> I second Big Black - weren't they from Detroit? This may be an extremely :> tenuous 313-link but doesn't the cover have a matchbook or a membership :card :> or something (sorry, I haven't seen it in years) depicting the :Electrifying :> Mojo's radio show? :> Re: Hall and Oates - I always preferred Maneater! : :-- :Todd Sines :icq: 11117580 :SCALE:form | image | sound :http://www.scalestudio.com : : :Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily :represent those of Channel Four Television Corporation unless specifically :stated. This email and any files transmitted are confidential and intended :solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. :If you have received this email in error, please notify :[EMAIL PROTECTED] :
